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The first doses of the?AstraZeneca?vaccine?arrived?in Ivory Coast in late February.??By March?1, the country started vaccinating people, making it the first in the world to do so through the COVAX initiative, a program?co-led?by?the World Health Organi…
LONDON – Zhang Zhizhen qualified for Wimbledon on Thursday to become the first Chinese man in the Open era to play in the Grand Slam tournament.The 24-year-old defeated Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo 6-0, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6) in the final round of…
WASHINGTON – History seems to have a way of placing current U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and one of her predecessors, Lawrence Summers, on opposite sides of major policy battles. Right now, the two celebrated economists are facing off in an arg…
WASHINGTON – The United States will miss President Joe Biden’s goal of having 70% of U.S. adults partially or fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by the July 4 Independence Day holiday, but the White House says it expects to hit that mark “in a fe…
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA – A food pantry in Fairfax, Virginia, serves as a lifeline for Mandy Recinos in her constant struggle to feed her three children. “They help me fill some of the holes in my food budget by giving me meat and produce I can’t afford…
After a deadly second wave spurred changes in India’s vaccine policy, the country announced it had given 7.5 million coronavirus vaccine doses Monday – a new single day record for inoculations.The previous high mark was 4.5 million on April 5, which wa…